Henry Baltazar is a Research Director for the storage practice at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Henry returned to 451 Research after spending nearly three years at Forrester Research as a senior analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals and advising Forrester clients on datacenter infrastructure technologies. Henry has evaluated and tested storage hardware and software offerings for more than 15 years as an industry analyst and as a journalist.
Prior to 451 Research and Forrester, Henry spent nearly nine years working as a technical analyst for eWeek Labs, where he covered storage, server hardware and network operating systems. At eWeek Labs, he initiated the testing coverage of various technologies, including data replication, clustering, virtual tape libraries, storage virtualization, SAN management, NAS, iSCSI and email archiving. In addition, Henry was a member of eWeek's editorial board and provided content for the magazine's enterprise storage blog. Henry has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as Silicon Valley Business Journal, Computerworld and SearchStorage.com.
Henry holds a BA in environmental sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.
The company made 20 announcements during its second annual Storage Day, highlighting key enhancements designed to improve the cost, performance, management and integration capabilities of AWS's storage services.
Combining 451 Research's industry-leading analysis with insights from our extensive community of mid-level and senior IT and line-of-business professionals, Voice of the Enterprise: Storage provides a broad, integrated view of enterprise strategy and initiatives, the business drivers, the underlying technology and the nature, pace and direction of storage technology adoption.
The company began as a backup platform for Salesforce and is now leveraging its architecture to give its customers a historical view into their SaaS data. GRAX claims its service allows customers to take ownership of their data on Salesforce and maintain that data on their own infrastructure or on another cloud.
Combining 451 Research's industry-leading analysis with a proprietary global panel of IT decision-makers, Voice of the Enterprise: Storage tracks the disruption occurring in the market and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors. The Transformation survey wave was completed from July to September 2020. The survey represents approximately 513 completes from pre-qualified IT decision-makers.
While most organizations don't use that many tools, they say they'd like to buy from fewer vendors " 83% of respondents to our Voice of the Enterprise, Storage: Transformation 2020 survey say they want to buy as many monitoring and incident response tools as possible from a single vendor.
More than half of respondents to our survey already use or plan to use AI/ML-enabled monitoring or incident response tools, so adoption appears to be strong, particularly for the more capable tools that have emerged. Our research suggests that organizations operating complex cloud-native environments have more to gain from AI/ML-enabled features.
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